Saila Poutiainen

Personal profile

Description of research and teaching

Director, Master's Programme in Intercultural Encounters, 2018-

Head of Speech Communication, 2010-2020

Research interests: ethnography of communication, cultural and intercultural communication, generally qualitative research methods, interpersonal communication. In addition, expertise in academic communication, communication relations (advising and mentoring, romantic relations, professional relationships), mobile phone communication, Finnishness talk, Finnish communication culture in general, relational dialectics, pragmatic theories of language and social interaction.

External positions

Teaching assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Communication

Jan 2006 → May 2006

Teaching assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Communication

Jan 2001 → May 2001

Teaching assistant, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Communication

Sep 1996 → May 1998

Puheviestinnän assistentti, University of Jyväskylä

Sep 1995 → Jan 1996

Fields of Science

6164 Speech communication
interaction
Interpersonal Communication
public speaking
518 Media and communications
Intercultural Communication
Ethnography of Communication
6121 Languages
sociolinguistics
pragmatics

International and National Collaboration Publications and projects within past five years.

Publications 1995 2018

19 Chapter
4 Article
1 Anthology or special issue
1 Commissioned report
3 More

Communication Modes Finnish

Poutiainen, S., 2018, International Encyclopedia of Intercultural Communication. Kim, Y. Y. (ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. , Vol. Volume 1, A-E. (International encyclopedias of communication).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

"Talking" and Tapailla ("Seeing Someone"): Terms for and Ways of Communicting in the Development of Romantic Relationships in the United States and Finland

Poutiainen, S. H. & Michelle, S., 2018, (Accepted/In press) Cultural Discourse Analysis in Situated Contexts: A Tribute to Donal Carbaugh. Scollo, M. & Milburn, T. (eds.). New York: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific

Kieli-ideologiat kierrätyksessä: tapaustutkimus “lässytys”-uutisen kommenttiketjusta osana uutisprosessia

Vaattovaara, J. & Poutiainen, S., 3 Nov 2017, Kielitietoisuus eriarvoistuvassa yhteiskunnassa : Language awareness in an icreasingly unequal society: AFinLAn vuosikirja 2017. Latomaa, S., Luukka, E. & Lilja, N. (eds.). Jyväskylä: Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistys AFinLA ry, p. 320-339 20 p. (AFinLA:n vuosikirja : Suomen soveltavan kielitieteen yhdistyksen (AFinLA) julkaisuja ; vol. 2017, no. 75).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

Open Access

File

Finnish terms for talk on the mobile phone

Poutiainen, S. H., 19 Aug 2016, The Handbook of Communication in Cross-Cultural Perspective. Carbaugh, D. (ed.). New York and Abingdon: Routledge, p. 168-181 14 p. (Intercultural Communication Association Handbook Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review